[qam1]

that’s why there’s debate. does the company’s private property rights trump your personal property rights? if so, how does that square with searches of vehicles for any or no reason, and where does it end?

Being the company paid for the parking lot and pays taxes and insurance on it, it's theirs and they should be allowed to enforce whatever policy right or wrong, they feel.

If you don't feel safe at work because of this policy, then you can find another job that's gun friendly or open your own business.

for example, can they tell you what bumper stickers are allowed on your car in their lot?

OK, you are a conservative business owner and many of your clients are also hard core conservatives..

One day one of your employees shows up in something like this

Does your private property rights trump their personal property and 1st amendment rights?

[ScreamingFist]

Does your private property rights trump their personal property and 1st amendment rights?

Showing up with an obama sticker at work is not in the same league as disarming commuters. I fail to see your point....

[cashion]

Being the company paid for the parking lot and pays taxes and insurance on it, it's theirs and they should be allowed to enforce whatever policy right or wrong, they feel.

Nobody forced you as a business owner to provide a parking lot that would hold your employee's personal vehicles. If you don't like what is in their personal vehicles, don't provide a parking lot.

[GovernmentShrinker]

The speech issue is different, because restricting speech ON employer property does not have the side effect of restricting speech OFF employer property. Employees who wish to express themselves with slogans on their cars can do so with removable stickers or magnetic signs, which they can remove and conceal in their cars just before entering the employer’s property, and put back on right after they leave.

[absolootezer0]

Being the company paid for the parking lot and pays taxes and insurance on it, it's theirs and they should be allowed to enforce whatever policy right or wrong, they feel.

being that i paid for my car, taxes, insurance.. blah blah blah. its a neverending debate. that's why i say park on the street or in a public lot. then they can't say anything.

one other thing that's a little off to the side, but vaguely relevant; if something happens to my vehicle on their property, is the company responsible?

[pleikumud]

If the 1st Amendment were treated the same as the 2nd Amendment, there would be a 3 day waiting period for journalists to print editorials and the stuff they call “news”; journalists would be subject to background checks before they can write; and the size of newspapers would be limited to 15 pages (good bye to the Sunday Times).

The founders obviously thought the right to keep and bear arms is important. After all, it IS the Second Amendment, not the 10th, etc. Everyone who is eligible should buy a gun and learn how to use it. Those who already own a gun -— buy a couple more and extra ammunition. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, per the 2nd amendment, but various state and local laws already violate the 2nd amendment and should be reversed.

The DemoSocialist oppose the 2nd Amendment. So would Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Kim, Lenin, Castro ..... to name a few other tyrants and dictators.

[kennyboy509]

hooya!
good argument!

[unixfox]

Why black out the license plate? I say expose these pieces of sh!t and then see how they like it.